Lin Shujuan had spent breakfast seething with anger, but fortunately, she had managed to snag a piece of pork belly at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
Mengmeng had hurt her foot, so she needed to eat well and build up her strength!
Lin Shujuan had gone out of her way to make Jiang Meng’s favorite braised pork. The sauce, darkened with soy sauce, clung to the tender chunks of meat, making the dish look incredibly appetizing.
Back in the apocalypse, Jiang Yan had mostly lived on nutrient drinks made from all sorts of high-tech synthetic ingredients or instant foods. She had never even smelled authentic, home-cooked braised pork like this.
No—she had smelled it once.
Because of a bowl of fragrant braised pork, she had been fed to zombies by one of her teammates!
She never would have imagined that eight years of fighting side by side could be worth less than a bowl of braised pork.
But none of that mattered anymore. Jiang Yan stared at the mouthwatering braised pork with her eyes practically glowing green.
The next second, she swiftly yanked the food basin over in front of herself.
The whole plate of braised pork went in. The cabbage stir-fried with crispy pork cracklings went in. The pickled vegetables went in…
Everything went in.
Then, hugging the food basin to her chest and carrying a bowl of plain soybean-sprout soup in one hand, she dashed into the bedroom.
Once inside, she locked the door.
Time to eat!
The whole sequence was completed in one smooth motion!
Jiang Jianguo slammed his chopsticks onto the table with a sharp crack and roared furiously, “Get her out! Right now! Get that dead girl out of here!”
“I’m going to beat her to death!” Lin Shujuan stormed over to Jiang Meng’s bedroom and started kicking the door.
Bang, bang, bang!
She kicked it viciously, cursing at the top of her lungs. “Jiang Yan, you little dead girl! Open the door! Ah! Open the damn door!”
Lin Shujuan was absolutely livid, but the door was too sturdy. She couldn’t kick it open no matter how hard she tried.
“Let me do it!”
Jiang Jianguo charged over menacingly.
A man’s strength was far greater than a woman’s. With one powerful kick, Jiang Jianguo sent the door flying open.
Jiang Yan, who was in the middle of eating, immediately darkened her expression and shot him a razor-sharp look.
Jiang Jianguo stopped in his tracks.
Why was this dead girl’s gaze so terrifying?
Lin Shujuan followed him in, but she hadn’t noticed Jiang Yan’s expression, so she wasn’t frightened at all. She charged straight at Jiang Yan and tried to hit her.
“I’ll beat you to death, you shameless little—! I’ll teach you to steal food! I’ll teach you to eat—ahhh!!”
Before Lin Shujuan could even touch Jiang Yan, Jiang Yan kicked her away.
**Bang!**
Lin Shujuan went flying through the air and crashed to the floor. The pain was so intense that she felt as if all her internal organs had been knocked out of place.
Jiang Jianguo stared in shock at Lin Shujuan, who was lying on the floor moaning.
“Jiang Yan, that’s your own mother! How dare you? How dare you?!”
Jiang Jianguo pointed at Jiang Yan with a trembling finger.
Jiang Yan sneered.
She had never regarded Lin Shujuan and Jiang Jianguo as her real parents.
“Why wouldn’t I dare? Anyone who disturbs me while I’m eating is going to die. Even if you’re my biological father or mother, I’ll beat you just the same!”
She had been born in the apocalypse and was an orphan. She had never even known what her parents looked like.
She had struggled to survive until the age of twenty, and in that time, she had seen far too many parents abandon their own children just to stay alive—even parents who fed their biological sons to zombies.
She had absolutely no fondness for parents.
“You’ve gone too far! You’ve completely gone too far!”
Jiang Jianguo had never seen anyone as utterly shameless and unyielding as Jiang Yan. He was so furious that his whole body trembled. Then he spotted a shoehorn behind the door, grabbed it, and raised it to hit Jiang Yan.
Unfortunately, before he could even touch her, Jiang Yan snatched the shoehorn away.
Then—
Smack, smack, smack!
The shoehorn rained down on Jiang Jianguo like a torrential downpour.
“I told you not to disturb me while I’m eating! Don’t disturb me while I’m eating! Do you not understand human speech?”
“Or did your mother never teach you that interrupting someone while they’re eating is as unforgivable as killing their parents? And you still want to hit me? Damn you! I’ll beat you so badly your own mother won’t recognize you!”
“Smack, smack, smack…”
Jiang Yan cursed as she beat him, every blow clean and decisive. It was incredibly satisfying to watch.
Jiang Jianguo was so furious he nearly spat blood. He tried to fight back, but Jiang Yan was far too strong. He couldn’t resist at all!
She had him firmly in her grip, leaving him no chance to dodge.
The shoehorn moved so fast it became a blur. Jiang Yan didn’t stop until she was tired out.
Then, with complete arrogance, she ordered dinner.
“Tonight, I want ginger-sautéed duck!”
“Dream on!” Lin Shujuan thought Jiang Yan was asking for the moon.
Jiang Yan gave her a cold smile and threatened, “If I don’t get ginger-sautéed duck tonight, I’ll make you eat stir-fried meat with a shoehorn!”
All the curses Lin Shujuan had been about to unleash died in her throat.
Jiang Jianguo could already feel the pain returning to his arms and legs—the very same pain from being beaten with that shoehorn.
But some people simply refused to learn their lesson!
At dinner, Lin Shujuan didn’t make the ginger-sautéed duck.
She didn’t even serve Jiang Yan any rice.
Jiang Yan seemed to have guessed that Lin Shujuan wouldn’t obediently do as she was told. When mealtime came and she went out to eat, she casually picked up the shoehorn.
“So you really took what I said as nothing but hot air?”
When Jiang Yan saw that there was no ginger-sautéed duck, she violently dragged Lin Shujuan aside and beat the hell out of her.
“Bang, bang, bang…”
The shoehorn thudded against her body.
After beating Lin Shujuan, Jiang Yan dragged Jiang Jianguo and Jiang Meng over and beat them too.
One after another, she gave each of them a thorough beating.
Only after all three had been beaten into submission did Jiang Yan go eat her dinner.
The whole Lin family had been beaten into obedience. They were furious, but they didn’t dare say a word, much less challenge Jiang Yan for food.
All they could do was watch with reddened eyes as Jiang Yan devoured all the food meant for three people.
Had she not eaten in eight lifetimes?
How could she possibly eat so much?!
Lin Shujuan cursed inwardly.
After finishing her meal, Jiang Yan contentedly sprawled across the sofa in a full-on “Ge You” slouch. On the coffee table were some apples Lin Shujuan had recently bought.
Jiang Yan picked one up, wiped it on her clothes, and bit straight into it.
The apples from this era didn’t contain all those high-tech additives and synthetic junk. They were naturally fragrant and delicious enough to eat just like that.
As she munched on the apple, Jiang Yan sighed contentedly.
“Actually, living at home isn’t so bad. I get three meals a day, I don’t have to work, and I’ve even got people around to vent my anger on!”
At the mention of people to vent her anger on, the corner of her eye swept toward the family sitting nearby, each of them furious yet afraid to say anything.
“When I’m in a bad mood, I can beat them up. When someone gets on my nerves, I can beat them up. After I’ve eaten my fill, I can beat them up. Even when I’m happy, I can beat them up…”
Every time Jiang Yan said “beat them up,” the whole family trembled.
They had truly been beaten into submission.
“Oh, right. I’ve also got a younger brother named Jiang Xiangyang, don’t I? Hurry up and call him back. A family should stay together and take their beatings together!”
Lin Shujuan nearly choked with rage.
Beating them wasn’t enough—now she wanted to beat her precious son too!
……
Having been thoroughly beaten into submission, Lin Shujuan didn’t dare disobey Jiang Yan the next morning.
Breakfast was white rice porridge and steamed buns, including buns stuffed with cured pork.
Jiang Yan ate a full ten large buns, along with a huge basin of white rice porridge.
The three members of the Lin family didn’t even manage to fill their stomachs with water.
It wasn’t that Jiang Yan was normally such a huge eater. It was just that the body from her previous life was currently merging with this body, which made her especially prone to hunger.
So at lunchtime, Jiang Yan once again polished off all the food by herself.
The Lin family once again went hungry.
“I can’t take this anymore! Get this dead girl out of here! Get her out of here right now!”
Lin Shujuan shrieked in desperation.
At this rate, Jiang Yan was going to eat them into poverty.
“I’ll go change the train tickets. We’ll send this dead girl to the army as soon as possible!”
As he spoke, Jiang Jianguo started heading outside.
He couldn’t stand Jiang Yan either.
And he wasn’t exaggerating. At this point, there wasn’t a single patch of skin on his body that wasn’t sore from being beaten by that dead girl.
Jiang Meng hurriedly grabbed Jiang Jianguo.
“You can’t change the train ticket!”
“Why?” Jiang Jianguo blurted out.
Because there were kidnappers on the train on the 23rd.
In her previous life, Jiang Meng had encountered them herself.
If Jiang Yan took that train, she would also encounter the kidnappers. She would be abducted and taken to a human-trafficking den, where she would be abused and tortured!